April Reading
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christianreaderOnly two books for April...
13. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1925) Anita Loos
Lorelei Lee of Little Rock, Arkansas, the not-so-dumb blonde, knows that diamonds are a girl's best friend. Here are her "diaries," as Lorelei and her friend Dorothy barrel across Europe meeting everyone from the Prince of Wales to "Doctor Froyd"--and then back home again to marry a Main Line millionaire and become a movie star.
The writing style made me go cross-eyed a few times. There's an awful lot of run-on-sentences, questionable grammar, and poor spelling. However, all of that serves to perfectly captures the voice of the diary writer: sweet and naive Lorelei Lee. And seeing the world through her eyes can be very funny.
14. The Tiger's Wife (2011) Téa Obreht
Natalia is on a mission of mercy to an orphanage when she receives word of her beloved grandfather’s death far from their home under circumstances shrouded in confusion. As Natalia struggles to understand why her grandfather, a deeply rational man, would go on such a farfetched journey, she stumbles across a clue that leads her to the extraordinary story of the tiger’s wife.
The flashbacks to the grandfather's portions of the story were more interesting than the modern bits with Natalia. His meetings with "the deathless man" were my favorite pieces. But that's my problem with this novel: I see it as pieces. I never felt like they interlocked into a "novel" as well as I would have liked. I think I short story collection from this author might have been more enjoyable.
13. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1925) Anita Loos
Lorelei Lee of Little Rock, Arkansas, the not-so-dumb blonde, knows that diamonds are a girl's best friend. Here are her "diaries," as Lorelei and her friend Dorothy barrel across Europe meeting everyone from the Prince of Wales to "Doctor Froyd"--and then back home again to marry a Main Line millionaire and become a movie star.
The writing style made me go cross-eyed a few times. There's an awful lot of run-on-sentences, questionable grammar, and poor spelling. However, all of that serves to perfectly captures the voice of the diary writer: sweet and naive Lorelei Lee. And seeing the world through her eyes can be very funny.
14. The Tiger's Wife (2011) Téa Obreht
Natalia is on a mission of mercy to an orphanage when she receives word of her beloved grandfather’s death far from their home under circumstances shrouded in confusion. As Natalia struggles to understand why her grandfather, a deeply rational man, would go on such a farfetched journey, she stumbles across a clue that leads her to the extraordinary story of the tiger’s wife.
The flashbacks to the grandfather's portions of the story were more interesting than the modern bits with Natalia. His meetings with "the deathless man" were my favorite pieces. But that's my problem with this novel: I see it as pieces. I never felt like they interlocked into a "novel" as well as I would have liked. I think I short story collection from this author might have been more enjoyable.
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